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The royal dottyback (Pictichromis paccagnellorum), [3] also called the bicolor dottyback, gramma dotty or false gramma is a fish commonly kept in marine aquariums. The front of the fish is bright purple and the posterior is yellow. In an aquarium, it will grow up to three inches long.
Flashback dottyback in aquarium Stunning, but highly territorial. If you want a gentler version of the psychedelic colors, then the more docile royal gramma would be a better fit.
A generally hardy fish, resembles the orchid dottyback, in that the body is a solid purple (sometimes pink), but is missing the black line/marking through the eye characteristic of orchids. This fish semi-aggressive in a home aquarium. 6 cm (2.4 in) Twolined dottyback: Pseudochromis bitaeniatus: May eat shrimps [49]: 101 6.9 cm (2.7 in)
Pictichromis diadema is the first dottyback to be kept in captivity. They are widely sold for the aquarium trade. A very skittish addition to any aquarium, one should be wary to keep this species with other fish of similar sizes; if the Pictichromis diadema is the bigger, he will attack them, whereas if he is the smaller, he will hide most of the time.
The royal gramma is a planktivore, eating mostly zooplankton and crustaceans. The royal gramma is also a cleaner fish. It removes the ectoparasites (a parasite that lives on the skin of a fish) from other fish and learns to eat dead food, such as crustaceans and fish flesh. They prefer to pick their food from the middle of the water column.
The dottybacks are a family, Pseudochromidae, of fishes which were formerly classified in the order Perciformes, but this has been revised and the family is regarded as of uncertain affinities, or incertae sedis within the Ovalentaria, a clade within the Percomorpha. Around 152 species belong to this family.
Pictichromis aurifrons (Lubbock, 1980) (Gold-browed dottyback) Pictichromis caitlinae Allen, A.C. Gill & Erdmann, 2008 (Cenderawasih dottyback) Pictichromis coralensis A.C. Gill, 2004 (Bicoloured dottyback) Pictichromis diadema (Lubbock & Randall, 1978) (Diadem dottyback) Pictichromis dinar Randall & Schultz, 2009 (Dottyback)
Pseudochrominae is a subfamily of ray-finned fishes, one of four subfamilies that make up the family Pseudochromidae, the species within the subfamily are commonly called dottybacks. They are small reef-associated marine fish which have an Indo-Pacific distribution.